Chapter 25: Fruitless Reflections
Li Mu sat on the car from Miaozhen to Shazhou, silently looking at the fields outside the car window. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Now the season has just been planted corn, beans, and green crop seedlings in the field, like a green carpet spread out on this sandbar plain. The neatly divided boundaries resemble a criss-crossing chessboard. After the scorching sun at noon, it is now a little cooler, and there are already people who have come out to work, adding vitality to this large chessboard, and people move like chess pieces that someone is playing.
The car was not driving very fast, and the bumpy feeling made Li Mu seem to have returned to his student days in a trance, and he also walked this road and went home in such a car. The road under the car has been repaired for more than ten years, with the development of the sandbank, the first thing to destroy is the highway, more than 30 miles of highway, the shuttle bus has to walk for an hour to get to the sandbank.
The cool and dusty wind blew from the car window to Li Mu's face, but he didn't close the car window, he closed his eyes slightly and enjoyed this feeling, maybe he hadn't come back for too long, everything here is so familiar, even the feeling of riding in the car in summer is so similar.
The swaying carriage is like a cradle, making people feel sleepy unconsciously, Li Mu gradually felt a little sleepy, his head leaned on the back of the seat, letting his thoughts drift away, thinking about nothing, but thinking about everything, many things in the past are like slides in his mind, reappearing in front of his eyes again and again.
But suddenly the picture was fixed on Ying Cairong's figure, the dream man who made him think about it for a long time. Last night, he had been thinking about what his feelings for her were? Just that trace of the deepest part of the memory? Or is it the reason why you can't even figure it out?
Love, do you need a reason? Don't need it? Do you need it? Don't need it? Li Mu is also repeating this dialogue in his heart, he deliberately chose to forget in the four years of college, but when he woke up from his dream that day, he sat quietly on the desk in the dream, and the picture of silently looking at the book was so clear? I once smiled back inadvertently, so intoxicating.
What kind of feelings do you have for Cai Rong? He had thought about this question over and over again, but there was no answer. I haven't spoken a few words to her, I haven't talked for a few days, I was a boy with low self-esteem at that time, wooden boy, I didn't have any friends, and I couldn't talk about understanding her from the side, but why are the pictures of the past still vivid? Still so obsessed, so ...... So unforgettable?
For her, he applied to be transferred to Liangjiang from the capital to work, just to get closer to her, to be closer, he didn't think about anything else, only these, that's it, he returned to Liangjiang from the capital. God is pitiful, and finally let him see it, but he got the answer he was most afraid of----- people have a partner! He could only bear these silently in his heart, surround himself tighter, be alone in the corner, licking this wound, his heart doesn't need to be understood.
And this time the thinking was destined to be fruitless, which made him very distressed, but he had to admit this fact. With the screeching sound of the car's brakes, the car had already driven to the terminal ---- Shazhou Bus Station, and Li Mu also got out of the car with the pedestrians.
There is only one bus station in Shazhou, which is not very big, and there are long-distance buses, inter-county shuttles, and county and township shuttles. At that time, the plan was to be in the west of the city, close to the north of the city. However, after the development of Sandbank, it has become one of the most prosperous areas of Sandbank City. There are schools all around, there are a middle school, a second middle school, a fourth middle school, a primary school, and an attached primary school, and the new inpatient department building of the Municipal People's Hospital is also near the station.
Outside the station, there are vendors selling things, most often food stalls. Shazhou people have a soft spot for snacks, eating cold noodles in summer, hot spring rolls in winter, Chengguan steamed buns with constant passenger flow throughout the year, spicy and addictive Shazhou broken noodles, sugar cake just out of the pot (a kind of pasta, oblate and round, with white sugar in the middle turned into sugar water after being heated) always keeps the mouth water, and so on. These snacks can always evoke memories of hometown for people who go out.
Li Mu walked out of the gate of the station, and there was a vendor at the stall to greet him to patronize, he shook his head slightly and left, looked around, Li Mu was ready to find a car (taxis are not available here, only some rickshaws, and the better conditions are three-wheeled motorcycles, and they are not very formal).
"Li Mu", Li Mu heard someone shouting at him, and looked at the place where the voice came from, it was the driver master Li Changjun, who was standing next to the car and beckoning to Li Mu.
Li Mu walked over quickly and asked with some surprise, "Why is Master Li here?" ”
"Huh. Director Zhao drank a lot at noon, and it seemed that he couldn't leave today, so I drove around the sandbar for a while, thinking that you should also come back, so I came over to have a look. Li Changjun explained with a simple smile.
"What's so embarrassing? On such a hot day, you made a special trip to wait for me......." Li Mu said slightly apologetically.
"What's this. Come and get in the car, your room is arranged, I'll send you there. Li Changjun beckoned Li Mu to get into the car and sat in himself.
"How are you at home? You weren't here at noon today, and during the meal, several of them took turns to fight and poured Director Zhao down. Li Changjun started the car and gossiped with Li Mu.
Li Mu nodded and said, "It's all good at home, have you gone home to see it?" ”
"Look, my parents are fine, don't worry about me, if it's okay tonight, how about we get together at my house?" Li Changjun invited: "It's rare for Hezhou to meet the villagers of Shazhou, and we are all in the provincial party committee, which is even more rare." ”
"Hmm....... Okay, I'm sorry for the trouble for Master Li. Li Mu hesitated for a moment and agreed, he originally wanted to be alone and quiet, but he didn't have the opportunity to think about his thoughts. Li Changjun was kind and couldn't shirk it, so he agreed.
"What's the trouble, you can come to our house, that's to give us face, that's it. I asked my family to cook a few of our sandbar specialties, otherwise I wouldn't be able to eat them when I returned to Hezhou. I'm tired of eating rice......."
In the gossip between the two, the car drove to the Splendid Hotel. Splendid Hotel is a very famous place in Shazhou, the building is newly built, the decoration is very luxurious, and it is the best hotel in Shazhou. There are also dance halls, karaoke and other entertainment for guests to eat and live together. Now the hospitality leaders of Shazhou City generally choose here, and the relative city guest house has been abandoned, and even a few chefs have been arranged here.
Li Changjun took Li Mu to the door of his room and said, "Your room has been arranged, next to it is Director Zhao, in the past one is Director Han, and the others are in the opposite room." As he spoke, he gave the key to Li Mu.
"Thank you, Master Li." Li Mu turned the key, opened the room, and said to Li Changjun: "Master Li can live here?" ”
"When you get to your doorstep, how can you still live here. No matter how good the outside is, it is not as comfortable as at home. Lee Chang-jun also entered the house, ready to sit down.
People who don't forget their roots can always make people feel good, and Li Mu has a new understanding of him.
The rooms are large, with a bedroom and a living room, and the bathroom is also located in the room, which is considered a very avant-garde facility in this era. Li Mu looked at it for a while, and then stopped looking. found boiling water, poured a glass of boiling water for Li Changjun and himself, then took out a cigarette, gave Li Changjun one, and said, "Master Li will sit down for a while and smoke a cigarette." I'll go to the governor to see if he's awake. He asked me to send the paperwork as soon as possible. ”
"It's okay, you're busy beforehand, I'll wait for you here." Lee Chang-joon said indifferently.
Li Mu picked up the document, went to the door of Zhao Wenhuai's room, and knocked on the door.
"You just came back?" Zhao Wenhuai opened the door and saw that it was Li Mu, so he asked.
"Well, I've got what you asked me to take." Li Mu entered the room, closed the door with his hand, and saw that the table in Zhao Wenhuai's living room room was full of documents, obviously he was not as drunk as Li Changjun said.
"Hmm." Zhao Wenhuai, from Li Mu's hand, flipped through a few copies casually, put them aside, he pointed to the sofa opposite and said, "Sit." ”
"Oh...... Be. Li Mu was stunned for a moment, he thought that Zhao Wenhuai would read the documents, but now that he was looking at his posture, he was going to talk to himself.
"Li Mu, but what's on your mind?" Zhao Wenhuai asked very homely.
This abrupt sentence made Li Mu very unaccustomed to it, usually Zhao Wenhuai was not smiling, and he really didn't show this attitude to talk to people. He hesitated for a moment, then said, "No, thank you for your concern." ”
"You! In front of me, he pretended to be ripe and a little tender. Zhao Wenhuai pointed at Li Mu and said: "Tell me if you have anything, don't treat me as a leader now, just as an object to talk to, don't be stuffy in your heart." If you have any difficulties, I can help you solve them as much as I can. Zhao Wenhuai tried his best to explain Li Mu.
"Really not, thank you for the care and care of the director, I will ask the director for help if I have difficulties."
"I don't treat you as an outsider, you are Professor Tang's nephew, and Professor Tang is my mentor. Listen to Professor Tang's meaning, I care about you very much, the two of us can be related to each other, and if you ask me to help, try to open your mouth, don't be embarrassed. Zhao Wenhuai said earnestly, he hoped that Li Mu could put down his worries and work hard.
"That....... I have a cousin who seems to be discharged from the army this year, and my cousin asked me to help ask, ...... you see" Li Mu thought for a while and said.
"Huh...... That's fine. Just for ......" Zhao Wenhuai said, and suddenly thought that Li Mu had something on his mind since yesterday, and the thing he just said must have been said by his old family after he returned to his hometown. "I was almost scolded by this kid." Zhao Wenhuai said secretly in his heart, but he admired Li Mu's eagerness very much. I was about to ask again, but there was a knock at the door.
He frowned and didn't speak. Li Mu glanced at him and went over to open the door first......